Code
3F022113
Duration
01 October 2013 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Theory and methodology of philosophy
- Philosophy
- Ethics
- Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
- Art studies and sciences
- Theatre and performance
Keywords
agency
human enhancement
posthumanism
Kris Verdonck
Giorgio Agamben
philosophical turn
object
figures
Project description
contemporary performing arts reflect on posthumanism and how they can communicate a critique of humanism. An analysis of Belgian artist Kris Verdonck’s performances, focussing on three aspects of posthumanism - the dehumanized figure, dematerialized performers, acting objects and human enhacement. Methodologically this research is inscribed in the philosophical turn in theatre and performance studies.